AIB worker stole €60k from elderly customers

A bank official targeted the accounts of elderly and vulnerable customers to steal over €60,000 which she used to fund her children’s third-level education and pay her mortgage.

Sheila McLoughlin, aged 59, from Cullane, Claremorris, Co Mayo, also stole christening money lodged in the accounts of two new-born babies before receiving a ‘package’ along with a pension on her ‘retirement’ from the bank in November 2012.

She repaid the money at her hearing yesterday at Galway Circuit Criminal Court and was given a suspended two-and-a-half year sentence. The mother of five had pleaded guilty before the court last November to 23 sample charges of theft from 14 client accounts at AIB, Vicar Street, Tuam, from July, 2010 to November, 2012.